Yellow Arrow Journal is a biannual publication of creative nonfiction, poetry, and cover art by writers and artists who identify as women.

About Yellow Arrow Journal

Join us on February 1 for the opening of submissions for our next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal (Vol. X, No. 1, spring 2025) on UNFURL. In the meantime, please meet the guest editor, Sara J. Streeter (she/her). Hear from Sara herself about her focus of the next issue at yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/desire-fire-within-guest-editor-yaj-x-01-streeter.

Sara J. Streeter, or 한혜숙 Hea Sook Han, is a writer and a Korean-American adoptee. Since starting her writing journey in 2021, Sara found her writing community through Adoptee Voices and developed a meaningful connection to readers, both within the adoption constellation and beyond. She mainly writes creative nonfiction prose and has been published in literary journals, such as Longleaf Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, The Rappahannock Review, GASHER Journal, Cutleaf Journal, and others. Sara has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fiction. She joined the Yellow Arrow community when her piece “Bitter / Sweet” was included in Yellow Arrow Journal kitalo Vol. IX, No. 2. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her family and is an interior designer for a small hospitality firm. You can find her at sarajstreeter.com.

For more information on how to submit to the issue, visit our submissions page. Submissions sent before February 1 will not be considered.

Kitalo, along with all past issues, is available as a paperback and a PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore, on Amazon and through most online distributors, and in bookstores in Baltimore and beyond.

Support the journal by purchasing a bundle of the 2024 (Vol. IX: ELEVATE and kitalo) issues at a discounted price, for yourself, for your office, or as a gift. Bundles are also available for the 2022 (Vol. VII: UpSpring and PEREGRINE) and 2023 (Vol. VIII: KINDLING and EMBLAZON) issues. Learn more about our bundles at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-bundle.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. For an editorial statement from our Editor-in-Chief, see below.

Meet the Guest Editors

Editorial statement

At Yellow Arrow Publishing, we pride ourselves on nontraditional publishing methods that align with our nontraditional publishing company. We seek to uplift underrepresented voices and to allow women-identifying writers to exist and be heard exactly as they are.

We believe that publishing is a vehicle for storytelling and that each storyteller should have the freedom to tell the truest version of their story. This means that we don’t focus on common style guides and norms and that we don’t change our authors’ voices into something they are not.

While we provide a basic copyedit of each journal issue, manuscript, and chapbook that we publish, we prioritize maintaining the unique voice and style of each of our authors. Instead of fixating on grammar perfection (though we will fix errant commas), we focus on the heart of each piece: we want the ideas, themes, and styles of our writers to shine.

We believe that every writer has a story to tell and that every story is worth telling.

We want every writer we publish to come out of the process feeling heard, valued, and needed.

We believe that your story matters. That you matter.

And we want you to be heard.

Kapua Iao, Editor-in-Chief

JOURNAL ISSUES: FROM JOURNEY (VOL. I) TO KITALO (VOL. IX)